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richsilver

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  1. I bought the book a few weeks ago and I am disappointed with it. I am an intermediate speaker of Thai and I found the book of little help.

    He spends a great deal of the book talking about the relationship and history of the Thai language to other Asian languages. I'm sure this is very interesting to scholars, but is not in the least helpful for learning the language.

    I found his mouth exercises and explanations equally unhelpful.

    He often refers to the digital version of the book for exercises and explanation, but this is not useful unless you have purchased it as well!

    Additionally the typography is horrendous. There are wild, arbitrary, jarring changes in font sizes and there is so much white space in the book that there are probably about 200 wasted pages! I'm guessing this has to do with the way the book was printed from the electronic version. Nevertheless, it's quite unpleasant. The images in the book are of low quality and often unclear and not helpful.

    I am a fan of his on-line videos, but cannot recommend the book.

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